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To help CMA BC members achieve their required Continuous Professional Learning & Development (PD) credits, we have assembled the following list of publications / blogs that members can access to obtain PD credits. Reading or research related to professional competency is one of the many ways that members can obtain credits. For every one (1) hour of reading or research, members can earn one (1) PD credit up to a yearly maximum of 30 learning credits per year. Click for more information on qualifying activities.
Update Magazine: Current Issue
Update Magazine ( Summer 2010 )
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Change: Will you shape it, or let it shape you?
Untie the Ribbon
On Strategy, growth and survival
Watch what you’re doing
Ride the wave
Eyes on the road
Transition anomaly or fraud?
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Recent Blog Posts
From www.cmabcblog.com/business-strategy
Best practices for Internal Audit
The words audit or auditors can send accounting departments leaping into action or strike fear into others. But is this reaction warranted? Tom Peerless, MBA, CMA shares why you shouldn’t fear your next Internal Audit as he dispels the myths around Internal Audit, reviews the Internal Audit process and its role in goverance in series [...] Read More
B.C.’s 20 most innovative companies
Innovation – a business buzz word, an elusive quality, thing or way of thinking? Innovation, and being innovative, is a quality most businesses strive for and hope to achieve. But how can one apply/encourage/create innovation in their business? Featured in this month’s issue of BCBusiness magazine is the 2010 Guide to Innovation where a panel of [...] Read More
Practical approach to IT disaster recovery
A nightmare most business owners and companies would avoid at all costs is the threat of a system wide IT crash or theft of all of the company’s servers and computers. In the March 2010 issue of Management magazine Arian Soheili, CMA shares the IT disaster recovery plan he followed as he helped a client, a $15 million [...] Read More
Investing peace – 3 things to consider
The market turmoil of last year made everyone sit up and pay attention. A year later, and with the 2009 RRSP season behind us, it’s time to look back and reflect on our own reaction and actions of the past year. In the winter 2010 issue of Update magazine, Don Nilson, CMA, FCMA [...] Read More
HST Transitional Rules: Life-time Memberships
CMA British Columbia is pleased to welcome Edward Young, CMA as a guest blogger on www.cmabcblog.com. Edward specializes in commodity tax and is a Senior Manager with Lohn Caulder LLP. A closer look at HST’s impact on life-time memberships By Edward Young, CMA The new HST transitional rules outlined how the HST would be applied if there were [...] Read More
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Management Accounting Guidelines (MAG)
CMA Canada’s Strategic Management Accounting Guidelines provide you with the lastest action-oriented management guidelines to help you implement industry-recognized best practices. The series includes emerging issues papers aimed at stimulating awareness and discussion on groundbreaking management techniques. Click to view a list of the most recently released MAGs.
Management Accounting Practices (MAPs)
Our Management Accounting Practices specifically give you the tools to enhance the internal operations of your organization, as well as provide information to enable shareholders to evaluate your organization’s performance. A full list of recently released MAPs can be found here.
Publications Archive
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Update Magazine
Update (Winter 2010)
Update Fall 2009
Update Spring 2009
Update Winter 2009
Fall 2008
Summer 2008
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